Child labor

Help stop child labor

Child labor

Help stop child labor

imagine if......

You were working for someone and getting barely any food or a limited time to sleep or not being able to get up and stretch having limited amount of food no talking get beat if you did something wrong. imagine that

Think of this.....

working for someone and getting barely any food or a limited time to sleep or even having no time to rest or not being able to get up and stretch having limited amount of food. Also if you did something wrong you would be beat for hours.

Doesn't look fun....

Children as young as 5 or 6 years old are victims of child labor. They work in carpet factories, in agricultural fields, and deep in mines, excavating minerals in toxic conditions. These children work for very little money and can only hope for an education and a better life.

Iqbal..

When Iqbal Masih was four years old, his father sold him to a carpet weaver for $12. That's how Iqbal became a slave, a bonded worker who could never make enough money to buy his freedom. He was chained to his loom, and worked 12 hours a day making carpets.

At the age of 10, Iqbal escaped and he began to speak out against child labour. People listened, not only in Pakistan where Iqbal lived, but around the world. In 1994, Iqbal went to North America, where he visited Broad Meadows Middle School in Massachusetts

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and talked to

North American children about child labour.

Teen activist....

Teen activist are believers , are people who want to change the world, people that care, they are amazing, and they are brave. They want to stand up for something that they believe in. Teen activist are people who change the world. They change the world by making things better for us.

Teen activist are people that care. We know that they care because they have been changing things to help us. They make it a better environment. They also help people to get jobs by getting them a good education.

Doesn't look fun....

Children as young as 5 or 6 years old are victims of child labor. They work in carpet factories, in agricultural fields, and deep in mines, excavating minerals in toxic conditions. These children work for very little money and can only hope for an education and a better life.

Iqbal..

When Iqbal Masih was four years old, his father sold him to a carpet weaver for $12. That's how Iqbal became a slave, a bonded worker who could never make enough money to buy his freedom. He was chained to his loom, and worked 12 hours a day making carpets.

At the age of 10, Iqbal escaped and he began to speak out against child labour. People listened, not only in Pakistan where Iqbal lived, but around the world. In 1994, Iqbal went to North America, where he visited Broad Meadows Middle School in Massachusetts

*

and talked to

North American children about child labour.

Teen activist....

Teen activist are believers , are people who want to change the world, people that care, they are amazing, and they are brave. They want to stand up for something that they believe in. Teen activist are people who change the world. They change the world by making things better for us.

Teen activist are people that care. We know that they care because they have been changing things to help us. They make it a better environment. They also help people to get jobs by getting them a good education.

Craig Kielburger.....

One morning over breakfast, 12-year-old Craig Kielburger was flipping through the newspaper looking for the comics when he was stopped short by a story: Iqbal Masih, a 12-year-old former child slave in Pakistan, had been murdered because he spoke up for human rights.

Craig was 12. Iqbal was 12. In that moment, he was struck by a single and profound connection – except for the happenstance of birth, he could have been Iqbal – and he needed to do something.

But what? He was only one person, and a boy at that. What possible difference could he make in the lives of child slaves a world away?

What was needed: a collective voice. So Craig convinced a handful of Grade 7 classmates that together they could make an impact, and Free The Children was born.

But they soon discovered that freeing children from slavery was not enough—the families of freed children continued to struggle to support themselves and many freed children had to return to work.

Craig and Marc expanded their focus.

Recognizing that there is no single solution to end poverty, Craig and Marc created Adopt a Village, an innovative, holistic approach to development that provides access to five key pillars—education, clean water and sanitation, health care, food security, and alternative income—and empowers a community to lift itself out of poverty.

Together, these five pillars achieve greater impact than each pillar could achieve on its own. A school that also delivers food and clean water programs ensures that girls can go to class, instead of walking long distances to fetch dirty water for their families. A medical clinic plus alternative income programs ensures community health care that families can afford.

Twenty years later, Free The Children is an international charity committed to delivering a sustainable development model that empowers people to transform themselves, their families, their communities and the world.